The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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I live in my dreams — that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That’s the difference.
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Theory is knowledge that doesn’t work. Practice is when everything works and you don’t know why.
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Faith and doubt go hand in hand, they are complementaries. One who never doubts will never truly believe.
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What you call passion is not spiritual force, but friction between the soul and the outside world.
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The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
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The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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A magic dwells in each beginning, protecting us, telling us how to live.
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When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
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Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
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To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
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If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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The truth is lived, not taught.
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